Dr. Sofia Bent Mohammad Yassin, Manager of National Child Development Research Center (NCDRC) of UPSI University, who was invited by Alzahra University to attend the training workshops and give lectures about "Database of Pre-school kids”.

NCDRC keeps records of all data about childern such as physical growth, mental growth, psychological condition and educational progress etc., right from the time of birth till the age of four years. This is done in order to identify the problems of children such as learning, psychological disorders and find ways how to prevent or treat them and also how to provide special educational services to disable childern. Dr. Sofia Bent Mohammad Yassin, also met with the Chancellor of Alzahra University Dr. Mahnaz Mollanazari.

The main points of the meeting which was under discussion included holding more training workshops, publishing cooperative papers, sharing experiences, exchanging of teachers between two universities and granting student scholarships.

In the meeting, an agreement consisting of university's cooperation between the two universities was signed.

The aim the workshop was to initiate data center for Iranian childern and attain experiences of Malaysia in this filed.

The participants were managers of kindergartens from all around Iran, Managers of Child Welfare Organizations and graduate students from different universities.